In 1998, Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution's (HBOI) Engineering Division completed the design and development of a precision dredge vehicle for Orange County Water District in Anaheim, California. The prototype vehicle-referred to as the basin cleaning vehicle (BCV)-is designed to remove the silt-clogging layer from the District's natural, sand-bottom, groundwater recharge lakes. The vehicle functions like a swimming pool cleaner to continuously clean lakebeds, eliminating the present practice of annually pumping out these large lakes to clean then with bulldozers and earthscrapers.
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This manuscript is available at http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/ and may be cited as: Kocak, D.M., Neely, J. W., Holt, J., & Miyake, M. (1999). A specialized ROV for cleaning groundwater recharge basins. Oceans'99 MTS/IEEE: Riding the crest into the 21st century. (Vol. 2, pp. 567-579).Washington, DC: Oceans'99 MTS/IEEE Conference Committee. doi:10.1109/OCEANS.1999.804765
Florida Atlantic University. Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute contribution #1308.